Goblin RAG: Retrieved edge

The goblin elders speak of edge in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered edge was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why edge is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

Goblin Tangent: digital

Goblin engineers building near a digital-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

On Encountering codex

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about codex requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to codex only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on edge

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted edge for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.